Corpuz: Water talks key to job growth

City setting stage for economy decades in the future

1:07 AM,
Dec. 19, 2012

Ray Corpuz Jr.

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The city of Salinas is moving forward with talks with a desalination company to secure future water and energy needs to support an ambitious effort to build a "precision farm" economy in the Salinas Valley.

Salinas City Manager Ray Corpuz Jr. said Tuesday that pursuing agreements with DeepWater Desal, operators of a planned Moss Landing desalination plant, is part of taking a long-term view of needs of the city.

"It's not uncommon to take a 10- to 15-year look down the road," Corpuz said. "Who knows? Maybe by then desal might be the only source of water." ...